Three Executives of Safety-Kleen
Are Suspended in Accounting Probe

By

Rick Brooks and

Mark Heinzl Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 6, 2000 10:48 p.m. ET

Safety-Kleen Corp.'s chief executive officer and two other top officers were suspended as the company disclosed an internal investigation of its accounting practices that it said could affect financial results reported since fiscal 1998.

The Columbia, S.C., waste-disposal company said in a written statement that the inquiry was launched after Safety-Kleen's board received "information alleging possible accounting...